Vaughn Alden Starnes, MD

Faculty

Department of Surgery faculty members, both physicians and scientists, are world-renown in their subspecialties. Faculty members are passionate in their clinical care and research practices, as well as being mentors for medical students and trainees. The department also invests significant funds to provide protected time and lab space for junior faculty to perform research.

Ming Lu Huang, M.D., is Assistant Professor of Clinical Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr. Huang earned his medical degree from Chung-Shang Medical and Dental College in Taipei, Taiwan. He completed his general surgery residency at Easton Hospital in Pennsylvania, and his cardiothoracic surgery residency at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California. Dr. Huang joined the USC faculty in 1995.

Dr. Huang is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and has active hospital appointments at seven hospitals in the Southland. He published a peer-review article in "Method of Heart Transplantation for Treatment of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome" in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery in July 1986.